What WWE changes would you make heading into 2016?

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To me...I was never a fan of the OG brand split, but now it's kinda needed. With SD being on Fridays before it was hard to keep up with.

1. Smackdown is moving to flagship USA Network. Currently, Smackdown doesn't mean anything in terms of angle/story development. So there's no point in even watching it. But now with it being on the same network as RAW, they need to reboot the process and make it meaningful like it was 10-12 years ago. Personally, I'd start by changing the Smackdown name & show image entirely b/c that phrase "Smackdown" is too 90's to me. But that's just me...:manny:

2. You have a built in talent development system with NXT. As it stands, if you just have 1 set of storylines and nothing developing on a separate show, you're just feeding all your NXT talent into 1 vacuum and basically 1 show. Everyone will get log-jammed.

3. Use the Divas for example....you got Charlotte, Paige(who still over with fans), Sasha, Nikki. That's 4 legit competitors for 1 Divas title. And since there's no mid-tier IC/US Champ belt for the Divas, whoever is not champ is stuck...as a result they make these struggle 6-person tag matches every week to get them some type of air-time to keep fan interest. So why not have 2 brands. A Divas champ on RAW and some other type of women's champ on "Smackdown"....why waste the current star power of Sasha or a whoever by making them wait months for a payoff. Injuries could happen. Look at Daniel Bryan situation.

4. You're signing these world renowned talents like Balor, Kana/Asuke, Kenta/Hideo because you want to capture a Japanese following for WWE Network. Well you can't have these ppl get called up to the main roster and get stuck at low mid-card status and still expect the fans in Japan to give a damn.
Plus, the Brooklyn NXT show proved these NXT characters have their own fanbases even on a large level. No point to call them up and have them all getting lost in the shuffle. That's just throwing away fan interest you worked so hard to build up for them in NXT and throwing away potential merch money. :yeshrug:
 
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Bring back the Cruiserweight division and give it proper time/attention. They have a lot of talented guys right now who are doing nothing, and the belt itself could be a valuable prop in feuds. You could have had the Stardust/Neville shyt be over the belt which would had given the feud more purpose, or have Tyler Breeze who just debuted hold it for a lengthy and impressive run to build up his legitimacy to the audience, or just let dudes like Tyson Kidd or the healthy Uso run with something. Since Daniel Bryan, they've continued to recruit and push an increasing amount of "small" guys and I think they could get something going with a new Cruiser division

Get rid of the people like Kevin Dunn who (according to sheets) obviously perpetuate a toxic backstage political culture/environment which reflects on the product

Freshen up the world title scene more often. Back in 2000, you had a revolving world title picture of Rock, HHH, Angle, Benoit, Taker, and Stone Cold. In 2015, its been all Seth (who stays losing every match), Cena (who's been in the world title picture for over 10 years now), Brock (who's shown up like 5 times this year), Orton, or Dean, with the title having switched hands only once :martin:And they wonder why ratings plummet, when the world title scene is so fukking boring and uneventful. We need to see new faces in the main event scene, and they also need to run more major storylines around the world title. Examples of how they can do that in today's era without some cheesy WCW-esque fukkery storyline is like 06 Cena/Edge or 09 HHH/Orton

Diva's division needs better everything. The talent has gotten better but the storytelling is laughable, especially when you look at NXT and how its been able to weave together meaningful rivalries with only an hour show and a 2 hour special every 4 months.

Everything that's wrong with the WWE right now is from a creative standpoint. They got the talent, the right climate (social media and WWE go well together), the network, the developmental. But man Raw is such a chore to watch at times :wow:
 
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Bring another ATTITUDE Era.

first Raw of 2016, have vince get on screen and announce the following shows will be tv-14 and be more violent,aggressive,foul language, sexual content and may not be suitable for children.
 
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There's too much unnecessary wrestling. RAW, Smackdown, Main Event, other crappy shows that I'm forgetting about. We don't need to see Neville vs Stardust, Sheamus vs Orton or Kevin Owens vs Cesaro EVERY WEEK. I'd dial it back on the number of matches, and bring back a TV time limit to matches. That way you can have the old fashioned Dusty finishes where matches end in a draw and the feud gets prolonged into the PPV rather than all these stupid interference and DQs that we see every week.

They also need to overhaul the commentary and production. Get rid of the stupid shaky cameras :beli:

Replace JBL with Cory Graves on color commentary, and I think RAW would be more tolerable. Let Jerry Lawler go away from commentary too. He made the PPV unbearable at times with his lame schtick.
 
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Smackdown is just there, so they need to do something with that. Cut some of the roster the down, because a lot of people on this roster is trash. Better storylines the writing hasn't been good for awhile, and you have good talent that can carry themselves promo wise.
 
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vegetarybrownrice said:
put Raw back to 2 hours, and give that last hour slot to NXT on USA (Raw: 8pm -10pm / NXT: 10pm-11pm) and make Smackdown more relevant, focus more on midcard storylines.
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They should do the opposite in terms of arrangement. Put NXT in the first hour and have RAW be the main roster for the next two. WCW did a similar strategy with the luchadores and it worked pretty well :ehh:
 
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MightyHealthy said:
You know, scrapping Smackdown and making Thursday night NXT on national television...

...that's genius. So WWE won't do it.
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nah breh. Nxt is selling point for the wwe network. And it's only good bc its untouched by corporations and sponsorships. Put it on national TV and it slowly will go down. Plus it would kill the cult fan vibe it has
 
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